Flip through these entertaining and party ideas for Easter that your friends and family are sure to enjoy.

Decorate Your Back Porch

Decorate Your Back Porch

If the weather is nice, place a table on the porch or lawn and brighten the seating with cushions in vibrant prints. Capture spring breezes with banners cut from coordinating fabrics and embellished with aviary motifs. The feather tree centerpiece is adorned with cookies that guests can take home as party favors.

Hatch a Prettier Seating Plan

Hatch a Prettier Seating Plan

A carrier pigeon, clad in a vintage-postcard print—could there be a wittier way to convey your Easter dinner's pecking order? We fell for the concept upon spying it in Clare Youngs's Book Art ($19.95; amazon.com). Then we simplified the process for you: Just print our placecard art onto 8½"W x 11"L card stock, cut out, and fold in half as directed. To equip each pigeon with a message, write a guest's name on a 5/16"W x 6"L strip of paper and curl the ends by wrapping them around a pencil. Then loop the strip around the bird's front leg before perching him atop a plate.